Barratt Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Barratt Hall, also known as the Philip Barratt House, is a historic home located near Frederica, Kent County, Delaware. It dates to the mid-18th century, and is a two-story, three-bay, center-hall plan brick dwelling in the Georgian-style.”
Wikipedia article Barratt Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Kent County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. S of Frederica off DE 372, Frederica, 19946
When was it listed? April 1973
Category. building
Census division. Milford North
Architectural style. Georgian architecture
National Register reference number. 73000492 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Barratt Hall between 2004 and 2015, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
18 April 2015	Smoking	3.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	SCOTTS FIRE
12 April 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Delaware Forest Service	TOBERT FIRE
23 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Storms near this property

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frederica, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2003 and 2026: 4 heavy rain, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2003	Lightning	Frederica	$80,000	no account filed
March 2026	Tornado (EF1)	Frederica	-	An EF-1 tornado occurred south of Frederica. Tree damage started at the intersection of Carpenter Bridge Road and Fork Landing Road, where multiple trees were uprooted and snapped. Tree damage continued eastward along Fork Landing Road, including multiple trees snapped. One snapped tree fell into a shed, destroying the shed. Tree damage was observed along Fork Landing Road until just before Browns Branch.
May 2018	Hail	Frederica	-	A report of quarter sized hail. Time approximated by radar.
July 2017	Heavy Rain	Frederica	-	Just over two inches of rain fell at this DEOS.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Frederica	-	Just over four inches of rain fell.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Frederica	-	Four and a quarter inches of rain fell.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Frederica	-	Almost five inches of rain fell.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Frederica	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kent County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Barratt's Chapel	1.0 miles	1972
Jehu Reed House	1.5 miles	1973
Frederica Historic District	1.9 miles	1977
Saxton United Methodist Church	3.0 miles	1990
Bonwell House	3.7 miles	1973
Matthew Lowber House	3.9 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000492 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kent County	All 136 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.